We need sanity on stadium committee

"CSU is focused on academics and its core mission of educating Colorado students. For too long, though, parts of CSU'S athletic program have languished in mediocrity while the rest of the university has surged to the top of the class. It's time for that to stop." - Jim Smith (Stadium Advisory Committee)

Excuse me! CSU has it right and need apologize to no one. To fix this "problem," CSU has hired a spectacularly under-qualified athletic director. The feasibility committee seems to be a deck stacked with Jim Smiths arguing for an on-campus stadium. This is no open-minded, unbiased committee. Its deliberations focus on where and how to build, with scant reference to whether to build.

CSU'S true visionary was Dr. Bill Morgan, who placed Hughes Stadium west of campus beneath the "A" - a symbolic, time-honored tie to the past with all its grand traditions. CSU needs to be like all those "other schools"? Why? Do we wish long-standing traditions trampled and trashed? Might this become an irreparable rupture? Every lame promise by promoters should end with ... "or not."

Who knew CSU had money to squander while departments languish and retiring professors are not replaced? Is there a Coloradoan investigative reporter willing to follow the money?

What is vitally important is that the academic campus remain intact with any and all space still available preserved to serve the academic needs of a growing university and its students far into the future (projected enrollment 35,000).

It's about vision. Pray saner minds prevail.

Jean Yule,

third of four generations of CSU alums,

Fort Collins

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We need sanity on stadium committee

'CSU is focused on academics and its core mission of educating Colorado students. For too long, though, parts of CSU'S athletic program have languished in mediocrity while the rest of the university